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- June 2011 (Revised September 2011)
- Case
Two Key Decisions for China's Sovereign Fund
By: Robert C. Pozen and Xiaoyu Gu
The China Investment Corporation (CIC) was China's sovereign wealth fund (SWF), established with $200 billion of registered capital in September 2007 to diversify China's foreign exchange holdings and increase risk-adjusted returns on those assets. CIC was unusual in...
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Business Subsidiaries;
Business Growth and Maturation;
Decisions;
Capital;
Investment Banking;
Investment Funds;
Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact;
Ownership;
Business and Shareholder Relations;
Risk and Uncertainty;
Wealth;
Expansion;
Financial Services Industry;
China;
United States
Pozen, Robert C., and Xiaoyu Gu. "Two Key Decisions for China's Sovereign Fund." Harvard Business School Case 311-137, June 2011. (Revised September 2011.)
- March 2017
- Case
SKS Microfinance (Abridged)
By: Shawn Cole and Theresa Chen
Vikram Akula, CEO of SKS Microfinance, seeks a venture capital investment to fund his firm. SKS, one of the largest and fastest growing microfinance institutions in India, is a profitable, for-profit institution with a social mission. In what is one of the first...
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Keywords:
For-Profit Firms;
Venture Capital;
Microfinance;
Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact;
Valuation;
Financial Services Industry;
India
Cole, Shawn, and Theresa Chen. "SKS Microfinance (Abridged)." Harvard Business School Case 217-069, March 2017.
- 04 Mar 2020
- News
Female Faculty Leading the Way on International Women's Day
- Career Coach
Lobna Dawoud
During her RC summer, Lobna interned at an investment bank and specialized in Financial Institutions Group. She is passionate about helping students with career visioning, setting a recruitment strategy,...
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Michelle A. Kinch
Michelle Kinch's research uses both laboratory and field experiments to examine how firms can more productively build relationships with customers by understanding and influencing their operating behavior. Her research agenda has begun with an investigation of the...
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Malcolm P. Baker
Malcolm Baker is the Robert G. Kirby Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School, where he teaches the required course in finance and a short immersive program on investing in life sciences.
His research is in the... View Details
Ashish Nanda
Ashish Nanda is Senior Lecturer and C. Roland Christensen Distinguished Management Educator at Harvard Business School. From 2018 to 2021, he was course head for the MBA Required Curriculum course in Strategy. Beginning in 2022, he is teaching an MBA Elective... View Details
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- July 2014
- Case
Thompson Asset Management
By: William Fruhan and John Banko
Thompson Asset Management (TAM) is a small investment advisory and asset management firm in Jacksonville, Florida, with about $100 million in assets under management in two different funds. Since starting the firm in 2009, the CEO and founder Allison Thompson has had a...
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Keywords:
Small Business;
Asset Management;
Expansion;
Investment Portfolio;
Financial Services Industry;
Florida
Fruhan, William, and John Banko. "Thompson Asset Management." Harvard Business School Brief Case 914-565, July 2014.
- September 2010 (Revised September 2011)
- Case
B Lab: Building a New Sector of the Economy
By: Christopher Marquis, Andrew David Klaber and Bobbi Thomason
The founders of B Lab are on a mission to create a new sector of the economy and are specifically focused on a three objectives: 1) building a community of Certified B Corporations (B=Benefit) that legally expand their corporate responsibilities to include...
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Keywords:
Economic Sectors;
Social Entrepreneurship;
Investment;
Policy;
Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact;
Business and Government Relations;
Business and Stakeholder Relations;
Social Enterprise;
Value Creation
Marquis, Christopher, Andrew David Klaber, and Bobbi Thomason. "B Lab: Building a New Sector of the Economy." Harvard Business School Case 411-047, September 2010. (Revised September 2011.)
- 2021
- Working Paper
Property Rights and Urban Form
By: Simeon Djankov, Edward L. Glaeser, Valeria Perotti and Andrei Shleifer
How do the different elements in the standard bundle of property rights, including those of possession and transfer, influence the shape of cities? This paper incorporates insecure property rights into a standard model of urban land prices and density, and makes...
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Djankov, Simeon, Edward L. Glaeser, Valeria Perotti, and Andrei Shleifer. "Property Rights and Urban Form." NBER Working Paper Series, No. 28793, May 2021.
- 07 Jul 2021
- News
Peter Tufano Leaves An Impressive Record At Oxford Saïd
- 04 Oct 2019
- News
GPIF’s Hiromichi Mizuno’s Term Is Extended for Six Months
- 14 Aug 2007
- First Look
First Look: August 14, 2007
acquired than those in a control sample. We argue that the combination of hedge funds' short investment horizons and their large positions in target firms makes M&A the only attractive exit option. The results also suggest that hedge...
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Martha Lagace
- February 2001 (Revised March 2002)
- Case
Korea First Bank (A)
In December 1999, Newbridge Capital, an equity investment fund based in San Francisco, successfully negotiated with the Korean government to acquire a controlling interest in Korea First Bank. It was the first time a foreign financial institution acquired a Korean...
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Keywords:
Negotiation Process;
Negotiation Participants;
Foreign Direct Investment;
Acquisition;
Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues;
Banks and Banking;
Banking Industry;
San Francisco;
South Korea
Huang, Yasheng, and Kirsty O'Neil-Massaro. "Korea First Bank (A)." Harvard Business School Case 701-022, February 2001. (Revised March 2002.)
- November 2022
- Technical Note
National Security and Transnational Capitalism
By: Meg Rithmire
Though the relationship between national security and transnational commerce had long been interrogated and contested, the 2020s saw the escalation of concerns about insecurity and interdependence. These concerns manifested in a suite of institutional innovations and...
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Rithmire, Meg. "National Security and Transnational Capitalism." Harvard Business School Technical Note 723-016, November 2022.
- 20 Aug 2007
- Working Paper Summaries
Hedge Fund Investor Activism and Takeovers
- 21 Nov 2016
- Working Paper Summaries
Intellectual Property Rights Protection, Ownership, and Innovation: Evidence from China
- 07 Dec 2017
- News
Can Index Funds Be a Force for Sustainable Capitalism?
- 19 Jan 2012
- News
A choice of models: Theme and variations
- 14 Nov 2017
- News